The next day, Luo Tong drove his mother's Chery to the door of the store, and finally found a place to park the car. Due to its proximity to schools, there are many storefronts and few parking spaces in the vicinity. It took Luo Tong a while to move the plants in the car to the store.

When everything was moved, it was already more than ten o'clock in order, Luo Tong shook his arm, and secretly congratulated himself that he had a wood-based ability. Since he had the ability, no matter how tired Luo Tong was on the first day, he was absolutely refreshed after a good night's sleep, and all the fatigue and fatigue on his body were swept away.

As soon as the flowers and plants were ordered, a guest came in, a seventy-year-old grandfather, wearing a pair of glasses, full of an intellectual elegance, a temperament that can only be cultivated by long-term immersion in literature. Luo Tong hurriedly put down the small gourd in his hand and stepped forward: "Hello old man, what do you want to see?"

The old gentleman waved his hand casually, signaling Luo Tong to leave him alone, and he took a look at it for himself. Luo Tong quietly walked back to the counter and continued to take care of the ornamental gourd in his hand.

Yesterday, Luo Tong brought a total of two small gourds from the flower garden, one has been taken care of and placed on the windowsill, and the other has some side branches that need to be pruned, and Luo Tong is placed on the counter.

The small gourd is a gourd variant, the stem has soft sticky hairs, and the tendrils are divided into 2 forks. The leaves are heart-ovate or kidney-ovate, with small teeth on the margins. Flowers open in June-July, monoecious, solitary leaf axils; The male peduncle is longer than the female flower, higher than the leaf, the corolla is white, the edge is wrinkled, it opens early in the morning, and withers in the middle of the day. The gourd fruit is pale yellowish-white, less than 10 cm long, the middle part is thin, the lower part is larger than the upper part, it is oblate and spherical, and the upper part is connected to the fruit stalk into a pointed peach shape.

The difference between gourds is that the plants bear more fruit, and although the shape of the fruit resembles a gourd, it is smaller, only about 10 cm long.

The small gourd fruit is small and beautiful. For ornamental use, it can be planted next to a trellis hedge, and the ripe fruit can be used for desk display or made into a work of art. It can also be used as medicine. Seeds can be pressed to make soap. The smaller and more thoughtful the fruit of the small gourd, the higher the ornamental value.

This small gourd is the most spiritual one in the flower garden, it has bloomed, and the scattered small white flowers are hidden in the layers of green leaves, which is lovely. This little gourd can already express some meaning intermittently. Like now, Luo Tong can hear it saying, "The sun...... Sun ......"

Luo Tong pursed his lips and smiled, pruning the extra branches, making the whole bonsai look more energetic. was about to put the little gourd on the side of the glass window to bask in the sun, but was stopped by the old gentleman who didn't know when he was standing in front of the counter: "Little girl, your pot of flowers and plants is a little interesting, do you want to make a move?"

Luo Tong was stunned for a moment, but still shook his head, "Old man, I like this pot of small gourds very much, I am going to keep it for myself, there is another pot over there, the quality is better than this pot, do you want to take a look at that?" Luo Tong pointed to another pot of small gourds on the windowsill, which did look similar on the outside, but only Luo Tong knew the difference between the two.

The small gourd on the windowsill can be faintly seen between the branches and leaves, and it looks more energetic than the one on the counter, but the small gourd on the windowsill can only vaguely understand its needs when Luo Tong touches its branches and leaves, unlike the one on the counter, which can already vaguely express his needs.

Luo Tong was an honest child, and although only she knew the difference between the two, she still felt that she had deceived the old man, so her little face was red, as if she was a little embarrassed. But in the eyes of the old gentleman, she is a little girl who is thin-skinned and embarrassed to introduce her products to customers.

The old gentleman, that is, Zhao Lao, smiled slightly, and looked at the small gourd on the windowsill, it was indeed better, at least it had already borne fruit. Zhao Lao also came into contact with the small gourd for the first time, he preferred the fruit plant, but the small gourd was the first time he saw it, so he asked Luo Tong for some precautions for small gourd breeding.

Fortunately, Luo Tong made up some information about the flowers and plants he brought back yesterday last night, so he was able to tell one, two, three.

But in order to reassure the old man, Luo Tong reached out and touched the leaves of the small gourd, feeling that the small gourd needed to apply some fertilizer and tidy up the lower side branches, Luo Tong chatted with Zhao Lao while taking care of it. The two talked very happily, quite a sense of forgetting the New Year, and the two also met friends with flowers, which was also an elegant matter.

During the conversation, I learned that Zhao Lao is a visiting professor in the Chinese department of a nearby university, has retired and is idle at home, and his usual hobby is to raise flowers and plants.

When he heard that Zhao Lao was a university professor, Luo Tong was in awe, because Luo's father was a teacher, Luo Tong had a sense of awe for teachers, not to mention that Zhao Lao was still a professor.

When Zhao Lao was leaving, the two also left WeChat accounts and added friends to each other. and made an appointment to go to the morning market of the flower and bird market together tomorrow morning, and then Zhao Lao took away the pot of small gourds with a smile.

Sending Zhao Lao away, Luo Tong looked at the potted plants that had just been put on the shelves in turn, the watering that should be watered, the fertilization that should be fertilized, and the pruning of the pruning, and it was already close to twelve o'clock when they were all busy. Luo Tong wiped his sweat, picked up his lunch card and bag and walked towards the school.

Because graduation is approaching, there are a lot of people coming and going to school. As long as the meal card is handed over to the school before leaving school, Luo Tong can still eat at school for a few more days, and at the end of the month, Luo Tong can only go out to find a place to eat by himself.